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The National Aboriginal Forestry Association wants more Aboriginal people working in high-skilled forestry careers.
With only 32 Aboriginal professional foresters in Canada, compared to 12,000 non-Aboriginals, Natives face formidable barriers to full participation in forestry's economic spin-offs, insiders say. If they expect to make resource development decisions and get…
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A unique 19th century man who embodied social change while adhering to the status quo amid the strictures of a class-ridden social pecking order in Eastern Canada, used his influence to challenge the limits of conventional Victorian values to an extent that was viewed as exceptional well into the 20th century.
His life is the focus of a living history exhibit that will…
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"I am so glad to be speaking my language in this place," said Amos Key Jr., executive director of the Woodland Cultural Centre. Key spoke the Ohen:ton Karihweatehkwen (Thanksgiving Address) in the Cayuga language on Jan. 26 preceding a performance of One Voice, Many Stories, a series of sketches portraying life inside the walls of residential school performed by the Six Nations…
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The words of four Iroquois Elders have been captured on film by Mohawk film-maker and activist Danny Beaton in hopes that their words of wisdom about mother earth will reach people and move them to action.
The Iroquois Speak Out For Mother Earth is the latest project created by Beaton, who has spent the last dozen or so years capturing the teachings of First Nations Elders…
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People from communities in the central Ontario region-in the area that includes North Bay to Manitoulin Island-ended 2001 with the annual traditional New Year's Eve powwow in Sagamok First Nation and brought in 2002 with the annual traditional New Year's Day powwow in M'Chigeeng (West Bay) on Manitoulin Island.
There were more than 30 dancers and two drums registered for…
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The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDBC) launched E-Spirit 2002 on Jan. 7. The Internet-based Aboriginal youth business plan competition is open to Aboriginal students in Grades 10 through 13 across the country.
Using computers at their schools, students go through a 16-week process, creating a detailed business plan and producing a video presentation that promotes…
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It's hockey season in Ontario and time, once again, for one of the biggest Aboriginal hockey tournaments held annually in this province-the Northern Star Unity Cup.
This is the fifth year for the event that will be held in North Bay at the Pete Palangio Arena with opening ceremonies on Feb. 8 and wrapping up with the championship games in each division on Feb. 10. Last…
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The 31st annual Little NHL Hockey Tournament is being hosted by the Fort William First Nation in the Thunder Bay area on March 10 to 14. This is the largest Native hockey tournament for youth in Ontario and is one of the longest running in Canada. This year marks the first time that the tournament will be held so far north. For the past six out of eight years the tournament has…
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"A big blanket of silence hid the atrocities that went on behind the walls of the residential schools," according to Aboriginal therapist Dennis Windego. "And some of us are still stuck in the memories, still helpless, still victims, still brainwashed."
Windego, founder of the Aboriginal Peoples Training Programs in Timmins, Ont., was a principal speaker at a Sudbury…
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First Nations communities involved in the energy sector, or wanting to learn more about opportunities to get involved, should mark Feb. 27 and 28 on their calendars.
Those are the dates for this year's First Nations Energy Conference, to be held at the International Plaza Hotel in Toronto. The theme of the third annual conference is "Making it Happen."
"The main…
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February 6 marks the twenty-seventh year of Leonard Peltier's imprisonment term. He was convicted in the shooting deaths of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.
Peltier, along with citizens groups across the continent, have steadfastly maintained his innocence and on Dec. 5, 2001, the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) named Leonard Peltier the…
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Representing Onkwehonwe people, singer Sadie Buck from the Seneca nation of Six Nations of the Grand River Territory and Tonawanda Seneca Territory in New York will perform in the opening ceremonies of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics to be held in February.
Buck was asked by executive producer of the ceremonies, Don Mischer, to be a part of the Native American…
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When Sandra Juutilainen travels to Rome this spring, she'll be seeing the Colisseum, the Piazza Venezia, the Roman Forum, and the Vatican. But she probably won't have time to stop and enjoy the view.
Those are just some of the sights to see along the course of this year's Rome marathon, which Juutilainen will be competing in to raise money for the Canadian Diabetes…
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Prime Minister Jean Chretien named Rama First Nations own James Bartleman as Ontario's twenty-seventh Lieutenant Governor on Jan. 10.
In his new capacity as the Queen's representative in Ontario, Bartleman replaces Hilary Weston, who was appointed to the post five years ago and whose term has expired.
Bartleman, the father of three, was born in Orillia and raised…
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A northern First Nation could have Ontario's first diamond mine in its backyard in two years or less.
That's according to the community's designated spokesman on the issue, consultant Paul Wilkinson.
De Beers Canada is in the advanced exploration stage at its Victor Project 90 kilometres west of Attawapiskat in the James Bay lowlands, where diamond-bearing…